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Blackburn Award Winner

Marlane Meyer, a playwright who lives in New York, has won the $5,000 first prize in the 15th annual Susan Smith Blackburn Awards competition. Her winning play, "Moe's Lucky Seven," was commissioned by the South Coast Repertory Company in Costa Mesa, Calif., and concerns the relationship between Eve and the Serpent. The second prize, $1,000, went to Jane Anderson of Los Angeles for "Hotel Oubliette," a drama about two hostages in a cell in the Middle East. The play had its premiere last summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts and starred Hal Holbrook and Steven Keats. The Blackburn Awards are given annually to women for theater works of outstanding quality. Ten other finalists each received $500 each.

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A version of this article appears in print on February 25, 1993, on Page C00020 of the National edition with the headline: Blackburn Award Winner. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe